KATHMANDU: The panel representing the ruling coalition has emerged victorious in the election of the Nepal Bar Association.
The coalition panel claimed all the posts in the 25-member working committee of Nepal Bar Association.
Gopal Krishna Ghimire, former president of Nepali Congress-aligned Democratic Lawyers Association, has been elected the new president of Nepal Bar. Ghimire defeated rival candidate Bishnumani Adhikari, who was close to the CPN-UML-affiliated professional body of lawyers.
Similarly, Anjita Khanal and Bharat Bahadur Raut of the coalition have been elected general secretary and treasurer respectively of the new working committee.
Election for new leadership of Nepal Bar was held on April 2.
A total of 7,429 votes were cast in the election.
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